The OnePlus 3T is successor to the OnePlus 3 which was launched a few months ago. The 3T comes packed with 6GB of RAM, 64/128GB internal memory, and a 16MP camera. The phone comes at a great price and you can buy it without having to break the bank.

Although the phone’s loaded with all the features and runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow with a planned upgrade to Android 7.0 Nougat, there’re still many things that can be improved on it. On an Android device, many things can be customized if you just root it. The same is with the OnePlus 3T.

OnePlus isn’t one of those companies that put a lot of restrictions on their phones when it comes to rooting (Verizon?). It’s very flexible since it was the company that had CyanogenMod as the main OS of their phones. Rooting the latest 3T is just as easy as rooting the previous phones of this company was.

Here’s how you can go about rooting your OnePlus 3T:

Before You Begin

This could void the warranty of your device. We won’t be held responsible for anything that happens from doing this tutorial so please proceed at your own risk.

Unlocking the Bootloader on the OnePlus 3T

Head to Menu > Settings > About phone on your device and tap on Build number for 7 times and it will say you’re a developer.

Head to Menu > Settings > Developer options and turn on USB debugging.

Head to Menu > Settings > Developer options and enable OEM Unlocking.

Head to Menu > Settings > Developer options and turn on Advanced Reboot.

Turn off your device.

Turn your device back on in fastboot mode by holding down Volume Up and Power buttons together for a few seconds.

Plug in your device to your PC using a USB cable.

Open the ADB folder located in the C:/ drive of your PC and hold down Shift on your keyboard and right-click anywhere on the screen and select Open command window here. It’ll open a command prompt window in the ADB folder.

Type in the following command into the command prompt window and press Enter:fastboot devices

Your device should show up in the list.

Then, enter in the following command into the command prompt window and hit Enter:fastboot oem unlock

Follow the on-screen instructions for unlocking the bootloader on the device.

When the bootloader’s unlocked, issue the following command using command prompt window:fastboot reboot

Your device should reboot.

You’ve successfully unlocked the bootloader on your OnePlus 3T and you can now go ahead and flash a custom recovery on your device using the following steps:

Flashing a Custom Recovery on the OnePlus 3T

Head to Menu > Settings > About phone on your device and tap on Build number for 7 times to unlock the developer menu.

Head to the newly unlocked menu at Menu > Settings > Developer options and turn on USB debugging.

Copy SuperSU .zip and No-Verify.zip from your desktop over to the internal storage on your device.

Turn off your device.

Reboot your device into the fastboot mode by holding down Volume Up and Power buttons together.

Plug in your device to your PC using a USB cable.

Copy TWRP Recovery .img from your desktop over to the ADB folder in the C:/ drive of your PC.

Right-click on the recovery file and select Rename and enter recovery.img as the new name. Make sure it’s recovery.img and not recovery.img.img.

Open the ADB folder and hold down Shift and right-click anywhere on the screen and select Open command window here to open a new command prompt window.

Type in the following command into the command prompt window and press Enter:fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Wait for it to flash TWRP Recovery on your device.

When the recovery’s flashed, do not reboot your device. Instead, use the following command to boot directly into the recovery mode to then flash SuperSU to gain root.fastboot boot recovery.img

Your device should boot into the TWRP Recovery mode. Now follow the following steps to flash SuperSU to get root access on your OnePlus 3T.

Rooting the OnePlus 3T

When you enter TWRP, you’ll be asked if you’d like to allow system modifications. Swipe to the right and allow it to do that.

Tap on Install in the main menu of the TWRP Recovery mode.

Navigate to your internal storage and select No-Verify.zip to be installed on your device.

Tap on Swipe to Confirm Flash to flash the No-Verify file on your device.

Tap on Wipe.

Tap on Format Data on the next screen.

Wait for it to format the data on your device.

When formatting’s done, tap on Install.

Navigate to your internal storage and select SuperSU .zip to be installed on your device.

Tap on Swipe to Confirm Flash to flash SuperSU.

When SuperSU’s flashed, reboot your device by tapping on Reboot followed by System.

Your device should reboot and the first boot after the above root process should take a little longer than usual as the device needs to create some of the boot files which you wiped off in the above procedure.

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